Quadripartite Structures - Categories, Relations and Homologies in Bush Mekeo Culture

Klappentext This book was the first detailed! comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. Zusammenfassung Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans! the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed! comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: the problem and the people; 2. Between village and bush; 3. Body and cosmos; 4. Sex, procreation and menstruation; 5. Male and female; 6. Kin, clan and connubium; 7. Feasts of death: de-conception and re-conception; 8. Feasts of death: the sons of Akaisa; 9. Tikopia and the Trobriands; 10. Conclusions, indigenous categories, cultural wholes and historical process; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Mark S. Mosko, Mosko Mark S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521105385
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10538-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, new guinea, Papua New Guinea